Robert Delaunay Quotes

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Color cannot stand alone.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Black is not a color.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

We never really perceive what color is physically!

The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.